The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-12-22
SOUTH CAROLINA BUDS,
senator ButIor's Daughters Who Will he In
Washington Society this Winter.

senator Butlcr's Daughters who will he In
Washington Society this Winter.
4 Washington correspondent of the
New York World gives long list, illus
trdted with portraits, Of the "buds" who
will enter Washington society this win
ter He says:
Senator Butler, Of South Carolina, is
enc Of tho most courtly and handsome
men Ill the United States Senate, and his
daughters will be among the brightest of
the rOsebuds OF the capital this winter.
Miss Marie Butler had just taste of
Washington society last season, and Miss
lIlisc will make her first appearance on
New Years. They both seem very
pretty. Miss Marie is very stylish and
highly accomplished. Sho speaks French
! 1lucntly, and, like her sister Elise, is
very fond OF horseback riding. The
picture give you OF her is an equestrian
one and it is taken from an instantane-
GUS photograph of her seateS5u5s 4acS
favorite horse, Frisette, wEsSseS .zss'',s;'
in ono of tho roads of the family es.tSu, es SeS
East Hill, near Edge field, S. G.
My picture of Elise, who is little bit
more Of rosebud than Marie, was taken
at the same time, and it represents her
in riding costume, but does not show
iOrth the full beauty of her features.
Miss Elise Butler is beautiful girl. She
is Of medium height, well formed, and
her large blue eyes look out over fair
cheeks, rosy with color Like her sister
, Marie, she is good French scholar, and
she viii be, as Marie was last winter,
! very popular with the diplomats. She
! Is iOnd OF reading, and is AN accomplish
cd talhcr. The Washington home of
! the Buffers il in the most fashionable
quarter vi the city. 1t is within stones
throw Of the British legation, not far
from BlainG's house facing Dupont Cir
Gle, amt just around tho corner from
where Secretary Manning lived last win
ter and where the Count Mithicwicz
lives now. 1t il red pressed brick,
, barring tho number 1,751 p street, and
IS very comfortably furnished. Mrs.
Butler comes Of one Of the best families
OF the Palmetto State, and as for the
Senator, his ancestors were the Dukes of
! OHmund, one of whom was lieutenant
general Of tho Royal troops during the
Irish insurrcction of 16l1, and who was
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in lG44. He
stuck to the Crown when Cromwell
seized the Government. He proclaimed
Charles II in Ireland and made an un-
Huccessfnl attempt to capture Dublin in
! lGl9. Cromwell, however, drove him
out Of Ireland during the following year,
and Charles II made hii0 duke when
he came into power.
The mans name was James Butler
+ Ormand, and one Of his descendants,
Pierce Butler, who was u third son Of
Sir Richard Butler, OF ireland, came to
this country as major in the British
army. He resigned, however, before the
Revolution and settled in Charleston,
and it is from him, | think, that the
present Butler family originates He
! was n member Of the first United States
Senate, and ono of his sons married Miss
Fanny Komble, tho actress. The pattern
al grandfather Of the Misses Butler was
in Congress, ono Of their granduncles
was an officer in tue American army and
was killed in the Mexican war, and
another grandunclo was tho United
States Senator in defence of whom
! Preston S. Brooks, relative assaulted
| Charles Sumter, inasmuch as Senator
Butler was not at Washington ut the
timo Summers attack upon him in the
Senate was made. Senator Buffers
mother was Perry, and she was the
youngest sister Of Commodore Oliver III.
! Perry, the hero of tho battle of Lake
| Eric.